I am at the receiving end of mercy. Everything that comes to me from God is a gift. I do nothing to earn it. No words, dances, prayers, sacrifices, chants, songs, nor vows have been required of me. If anything is required of me, then I receive what I am due, like a paycheck. Besides, if God did require songs, then God would not command it of us - God would simply design hydrogen atoms and stars to burst forth in fiery song at appointed times (there are far more stars than there are humans - and they are a lot bigger than us). Such things would be God's business and not ours.

The things that are our business, such as our health, our planet, and our children, do require our work.

It is my hope that people stumble upon God. God is wonderful to me, but painful to you. Your endless prayers are evidence of this. The only people on the planet who cry out as little as me are those rich with money - and you see the wealthy, they are broadcasted on all radios and televisions, but you don't see me. You don't see the wealth that I have - and I am not rich with money, but with God's compassion.

I know where I am, but I don't know where I am going. Things have never gone as I have imagined they would, and I am glad that Yahweh is God, forever searchable yet always knowable.